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(video) My Opening Statement in the Student Debate at Skepticon 2

Intro: For those of you who don't wish to scour my lengthy review of Charlie Self's closing remarks on the pro debate, here's the video of my opening statement from the student debate. I got great reviews from every…
Pychen & "Could Jesus Be Lying About Hell?"

Intro: Recently I commented on Pychen's post that describes how unbiblical he believes universalism is. Universalism is the idea that everyone will be saved from hell. I actually agree that the Bible does not teach…
An All Powerful Satan and the Argument from Evil

Intro: I was cruising some atheist web forums (talkrational.org) and stumbled across a new debate item I'd not encountered before. Exciting! Even though the hypothetical item (an all powerful Satan) is so far off the…
Divinely Inspired Emotional Incompetence

Intro: Just recently, an atheist friend of mine was lamenting the perils of not having God to inspire long term fidelity to a troubled relationship. And also a theist acquaintance of mine was considering Anne Rice's…
BelieveorDoubt & "Alternatives to God of the Gaps Arguments"

Intro: In BelieveorDoubt's Case for God, Part V after noting the futility of being impatient with the natural sciences, he asks, "Sure, natural causes might be brought in, but are they as good an explanation as God?" M…
The God Shaped Hole, part 2

GodShaped Hole: That would actually be aprimary argument against God because his invisibility and mysteriousness isantithetical to the natural human need of close relationship bonds to bestable. I’ve experience…
BelieveorDoubt & "God is Dead, But His Followers Aren't."

My comment on believeordoubt's site. Mainly for me, at this point in my life, it's about trying to find a productive place in the fray of passionate nonsense from both sides. I do think the proverbial horse is quite…
BelieveorDoubt & "The Anti-god Bigotry of Scientism"

A comment of mine from believeordoubt's site. I agree. That is a bullshit game. And an unnecessary one. But I understand you probably get that kind of anti-theological bigotry/scientism more often than not. When I ask…
Fletch_F_Fletch & "NOMA Compatible Theism"

My comment on FFF's site. From my perspective these are relative word games and the general problem is the NOMA myth that perhaps accommodates all the religious scientists out there that keep their personal beliefs out…
God and Our Free Will

@godgone - Technically God could moderate the use of our free will and there are certainly Bible passages that are along those lines. If I recall correctly, there's at least one instance where King David praises God for…